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This would make more sense to me if we hadn’t just heard, for the fifth consecutive year, that top executives were getting outrageous bonuses despite the fact that these same companies are using the bad economy as an excuse to give little or nothing to everybody else…

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I don’t think this has to be an “executives are getting puny bonuses, no bigger than a hot dog” joke. I think it’s an “executives can stroll down to the bonus cart and give themselves a nice bonus whenever they feel like it” joke. Or maybe more likely it’s just a simple “bonuses are nice and it’s nice to go get one just like going to the ice cream cart and getting a popsicle”. I mean, they look happy to be getting some bonuses, don’t they?

Is there any significance to the fact that this transaction is occurring just around the corner from a “Potato Market”? (If anyone has a better interpretation for “POT(A)… MAR..”, I’d be happy to hear it.)

I’m not an executive, but I got a bonus this year and so did most others in my company.

You see, my company has learned to give bonuses instead of raises. Raises increase your salary base every year. Bonuses don’t. Here, I’ll show you. Suppose I started at $20,000 per year and got a 5% raise or a 5% bonus:

Meaning that if your management, like most corporate managements do sooner or later, decides to cook the books to show higher profits by squeezing the employee base, you’ll cease getting bonuses and be paid at a level equivalent to the one you had many years ago, with no recourse because they haven’t cut your actual salary at all. The difference is that inflation won’t be similarly rolled back. I’ve been watching your posts; I honestly can’t wait to see what convoluted logic you’ll be using to blame that on “the left”.